Kasteel Allart

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Le château en bref

Allart Castle is a classicising manor house from the early nineteenth century, in the heart of Aalbeke (Kortrijk), along the Moeskroensesteenweg. Built for the De Brabander-Cottignies family, it was acquired in 1870 by Dr Sioen as a second residence. His grandson Georges Allart moved in in 1909, had the outbuildings enlarged and added a corner turret in the Art Nouveau style in 1910. In 1911 he then created a 2.5-hectare landscaped park organised around two ponds, with cascades, a belvedere, an arbour and a concrete bridge imitating a tree trunk. The building, of brick faced with artificial stone, has a central projecting section with a triangular pediment and a doorway on a bluestone perron. Neglected after Allart's death in 1962, and stripped of its transverse wings in 1967 to widen the road, the site has been protected as a monument together with its park since 2004. The park hosts summer concerts.